A/N: Hello all! So, as some of you...might know. I am not sure recently I came back to Naruto stories. As I was working on my other ones an idea occurred to me, and this story came out of it as well as character you'll see later on. I liked this idea a lot so I thought to officially make it a story. Special thanks go to, Arch-Daishu for reading this chapter over,and sheltie for helping me flesh out bits of the story as it goes on, and letting me use a character of his later. Go check both of them out! They are AMAZING!

"Talking"

Jutsu

'Thinking'

"Biju Talking"

'Biju Thinking'

So all that said...

Enjoy!

Chapter 1

The battle was raging, the night had been quiet almost peaceful. Kushina Uzumaki the current host of the Kyuubi had been about to give birth. With the seal about to be weakened, plans had been made and for a brief time things had seemed well. Hiruzen Sarutobi, was not sure what had happened what he did know was for the past hour or so he had been leading the fight against the Kyuubi to defend the village.

The former Hokage, hadn't seen his successor in that whole time or Kushina. He was understandably worried, which is why he was both relieved and surprised when the blast from the Kyuubi that had been aimed directly at the village vanished and a moment later Minato appeared beside him.

"Thank you for leading the forces Hiruzen-san, sorry I had some other things to deal with." Minato said and Hiruzen noted that Minato looked as if he had been in a serious fight. There were tears in his clothes and cuts on his person.

"Minato, what happpened to you?" The former Hokage asked with serious concern.

"I'll tell you later, right now I have a plan. I'm going to lead the fox away and then I'm going to seal it inside my son using the Shiki Fūjin (Dead Demon Consuming Seal) and then the Hakke no Fūin Shiki (Eight Trigrams Sealing Style). It should weaken the Fox enough to seal it a little better." He said solemnly.

"No! You can't Minato, if you use that technique you will die." Hiruzen said staring at the younger man.

"It's the only one that would work in a quick enough time, and if I don't so many other people will die instead." Minato said in a resigned way.

"I'm going with you, there has to be another way." The former older Hokage said.

"Your free to come, but there is no other way." Minato said biting his thumb and going through seals as Hiruzen took a stand beside him and he slammed his hand to the ground; Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique)." He said there was a large puff of smoke and soon he and Hiruzen stood on top of a giant red toad.

The toad stared at the Kyuubi; "Minato what have you gotten me into?" The great Toad demanded.

"Gamabunta, I need you to hold the nine tails down so I can teleport it away. I have a plan." Minato said urgently.

"Right, I'm on it!" The large toad said pouncing towards the monstrous fox. It was something to see to watch the fox and toad fight each other as the Third and Fourth Hokage rode on the toads back providing openings for the toad. Eventually Minato saw the opening he needed.

There was a large flash of light and the fox and the Kage's were gone. Immediately they reappeared outside what Hiruzen noticed was Minato and Kushina's safe house. He saw everything set up for the sealing with the baby in the center of a circle.

Kushina had erected a barrier using her chakra chains and was holding the Kyuubi back.

"Minato, please don't do this, Naruto needs both his parents." Kushina said seriously sounding both tired and desperate.

"There is no other way and besides Kushina-chan it is the duty of the Hokage to protect the village and it's people even at the cost of their own life." He said.

"He's right, but sometimes it is the duty of the older generation, to ensure that the next generation can carry on." Hiruzen said from behind them as he finished a set of hand signs ending on Snake before clapping his hands; Shiki Fūjin (Dead Demon Consuming Seal)." He said.

The shinigami appeared behind Hiruzen as it's hand reached out through Hiruzens body and gripped on the body of the Kyuubi, and seemed to pull it apart separating it's Yin and Yang halves from each other.

"Jiji, no!" Kushina said watching as what was her grandfather in all but blood began to slide to the ground.

"Minato finish it now!" Hiruzen pleaded his voice weakening with each passing second as What remained of the Kyuubi roared in protest it's claw heading towards them and the baby. With every once of strength he could muster the elder Kage stood and leapt in front of the claws as Kushina's chains slowed it's momentum as well but it still managed to pierce through the Sandaime Hokages body but stopped just short of Minato and Kushina.

"Please, Minato finish this." Hiruzen breathed, Minato and Kushina both had tears in their eyes as he nodded and finished the other seal he had prepared; "Hakke no Fūin Shiki (Eight Trigrams Sealing Style)." He said and the seal closed in around Naruto.

The Kyuubi became a more angry as it was essentially sucked into the child letting out one final roar as it vanished.

For a moment they stood in silence as Naruto wailed and Hiruzens breathing became more labored. Minato rushed over as his predecessor fell to the ground.

"Hiruzen, why?" Minato asked as Hiruzen watched the shinigami pull his soul slowly from his body; "Because, Minato I am an old man, I have seen and done much with my life. You however, are young and strong the village needs it's Hokage, and Naruto deserves to have both his parents." He breathed out.

"Jiji, I...we can never thank you enough." Kushina said in a tired and sad voice tears streaming from her eyes.

"You, don't have to thank me at all, just promise me you'll care for your son, and for the village. That the will of Fire will carry on." Hiruzen said his sould nearly gone from his body.

"It will, I swear to you the village and the will of Fire will continue on." Minato said tears streaming from his own eyes as he stared down at the man.

"That, is all...I can ask and tell Asuma and Hiei , I am sorry I wish I could have been a better father." Hiruzen said as the death god raised it's knife and cut the soul away; He smiled as his last breath left his body and Hiruzen Sarutobi passed from this life on to the next.

For a long while Minato and Kushina sat in silence thinking of all that had happened. After a while Minato stood and carefully picked Kushina and Naruto up before using his; Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Technique) to take her back to their home in Konoha.

He took them to his and Kushina's room and set them gently down on their bed; he kissed both their foreheads before vanishing again and retrieving Hiruzens body and going not to the center of a the village, but to the Sarutobi compound and laying him down next to the others of his family who had fallen in the battle.

"Thank you Hiruzen." He said before vanishing again.

-Hours Later-

Minato sat in the meeting room of the shinobi council, he was waiting for all the clan heads to show up he had much to tell them, and some things needed to be decided upon.

Soon enough they all came, trickling in one by one all seeming exhausted not that he could blame them. The night had taken it's toll on them all, it especially broke his heart to see Hiei Sarutobi Hiruzens oldest son come in as the new head of the Sarutobi clan.

Once they were all seated Minato cleared his throat and spoke in a calm and tired voice; "Thank you all for coming; I understand that his has been a long night for us all, we have all suffered losses but there are some things we need to address." He said.

"First of all, while Kushina was giving birth to our son, the seal holding the Kyuubi was weakened. We were prepared for that, but someone attacked us and made sure they Kyuubi got free and used it to attack our home. This person, whoever they were had a sharingan." Minato said and as he expected the room came to life with people glaring at and throwing accusations at the Uchiha clan head Fugaku, who appeared more than a little angry.

Minato though spoke before he could; "ENOUGH!" He shouted and the room went quiet. The usually calm and jovial Hokage so rarely screamed in anger.

"I do not however believe that this man whoever it was, has anything to do with the Uchiha in our village, He may have once been a citizen, or a part of our forces and defected. He could just be a man who somehow obtained and implanted a sharingan. With this in mind I will be working with all of you and especially the Uchiha to catch him. The Uchiha Clan is on of the oldest, and most loyal to our village they deserve the same respect all the clans do, and we would all do well to remember that before throwing these accusations around."

The clan heads who had spoken out of turn looked ashamed, but he understood tensions were high and they all wanted someone to blame, but he would make sure the blame went where it should.

"With that said; Thanks to the sacrifice of Hiruzen Sarutobi, and quick thinking on Kushina and my part we managed to seal the Kyuubi away inside our son Naruto. We would have sealed it back in her, but we didn't have time, and we were not sure her body would take the strain after everything else." He said.

"So the question is, do we tell the civilians?" Fugaku asked.

"I don't think so." Tsume Inuzuka said carefully.

"I'd have to agree with Tsume here, the civilians are all sad, scared, and paranoid. Not to mention that some of our best shinobi even have issues with fully understanding Fuinjutsu." Shibi Aburame said.

"They're right, if told now they might see the boy as nothing more than the Kyuubi it's self, they could mistreat him even if he's the Hokage-sama's son." Inoichi Yamanaka said seriously.

"That's a fair point, therefore at least for now the knowledge will only be given to those of Chunin or above, and classified as an S-Rank secret. Naruto himself will only be told when it is deemed he is ready to know, and from then on who knows will be up to him." Minato said and the other clan heads nodded.

"With all that decided this meeting is dismissed, you may all go rest, tomorrow we have more rebuilding to do." Minato said and they all rose and exited slowly until at last it was just Minato, Fugaku Uchiha, and Hiei Sarutobi.

Minato exhaled as he looked to the two remaining men, eyebrows raised and waiting it was Fugaku who spoke first his tone calm, but grateful seeming; "Thank you for sticking up for me and my clan Hokage-sama, I promise you that your trust will not be misplaced." He said seriously.

Minato smiled a bit tiredly; "It's not trouble, and in cases like this you don't have to be so formal my friend." He said shaking the mans hand.

"We'll start the search for the man tomorrow. For now though, you should head home, I'm sure Mikoto, and Itachi are worried and don't forget little Sasuke and Rei." He said smiling.

Fugaku smiled nodding heading out leaving Minato alone with Hiei. Minato glanced over at the man, he was about Minato's age. He was built a bit taller, and muscular, he had short brown spiky hair, and bright emerald eyes. He was dressed in a full ANBU uniform minus the mask.

"So, can you tell me what happened to my father?" He asked sadly.

Minato sighed and nodded before launching into the story of all that had happened; "I had every intention of making the sacrifice, I wish that I had." He said sadly.

"Don't be sorry, my tou-san wouldn't want that, he was a stubborn old man even when he wasn't old. He did what he thought was the best thing in the situations he was given." Hiei said smiling just a little bit sadly.

"Hiei wanted me to tell you and Asuma that he was sorry, he felt that he should have been a better father to you both." Minato said and Hiei's smile faltered.

"I...I wasn't expecting that. We may not have understood when we were younger, but we know now he was doing things for the good of the village, not because he didn't want to be around us. Tou-San loved us and we love him still. I am disappointed that he won't get to know his Grandson, but we'll tell young Akira all about him when he's older." He said and Minato nodded before yawning.

"Listen at some point we'll all have to get together, you, me, Fugaku and our families. I think all the kids could do with making friends." Minato said and Hiei nodded and headed to the door; "I'd like that." He said smiling a bit bigger than before as he went out the door.

Minato sighed, with things now calm as they were going to get he used his Hiraishin no Jutsu, and appeared beside his bed where Kushina and Naruto were both sleeping soundly. Without even changing out of his clothes Minato layed on the other side of Naruto wrapping an arm around them both and fell asleep.

A/N: So that's the first chapter done. Now to answer a few questions; Hiei and his wife (who will be shown later) are kind of cannon and kind of OC. It's been said that Hiruzen had another child and that kid was Konohamaru's parent (because Asuma was not) and that other child was an ANBU captain, so yeah I worked with that, and yes they will have Konohamru later and he is my OC Akira's little brother.

Rei Uchiha was created by sheltie, and is an OC of his. She is Sasuke and Itachi's sister (Sasuke's fraternalish twin).

So yeah ladies and gentlemen that explains everything other than those ones above you won't see many other OC's for a little while though there will be more thye will all be properly developed, or at least to the best of my abilities.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter, see you next chapter!